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Navisite Managed Infrastructure Services (NaviCloud) vs. OVH Dedicated Servers vs. Rackspace Managed Hosting

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    ProductRatingMost Used ByProduct SummaryStarting Price

    Navisite Managed Infrastructure Services (NaviCloud)

    Score7 out of 10
    N/ANaviSite boasts flexible and scalable managed services that provide 24x7x365 monitoring and support for any environment a business selects—whether it’s on-premises, in the cloud or hybrid. Their managed infrastructure services include managed infrastructure and hosting, data center colocation services, as well as disaster recovery as a service (DRaaS). Navisite services include those under the former RDX brand, which separated from Charter Communications (as part of the Spectrum Enterprise…N/A

    OVH Dedicated Servers

    Score10 out of 10
    N/AOVH offers a wide range of dedicated servers for hosting a wide variety of sites or apps, including ecommerce sites, managing a private network, enterprise web application, DDoS protected gaming servers, and more.

    $66.50

    per month

    Rackspace Managed Hosting

    Score9 out of 10
    N/ARackspace Managed Hosting is cloud computing company Rackspace's managed IT services and IaaS offering. Its infrastructure options include bare metal servers, virtual single-shared servers, and cloud multi-tenant environments.

    $23

    per month

    Pricing
    Navisite Managed Infrastructure Services (NaviCloud)OVH Dedicated ServersRackspace Managed Hosting
    Editions & Modules
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    Rise
    $66.50
    per month
    Advance
    $102.60
    per month
    Game
    $171
    per month
    Scale
    $423
    per month
    High Grade
    $945
    per month
    Linux
    $23.00
    per month
    Windows
    $75.00
    per month
    Windows + SQL
    $128.00
    per month
    Offerings
    Pricing Offerings
    Navisite Managed Infrastructure Services (NaviCloud)OVH Dedicated ServersRackspace Managed Hosting
    Free Trial
    NoNoNo
    Free/Freemium Version
    NoNoNo
    Premium Consulting/Integration Services
    NoNoNo
    Entry-level Setup FeeNo setup feeNo setup feeNo setup fee
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    Features
    Navisite Managed Infrastructure Services (NaviCloud)OVH Dedicated ServersRackspace Managed Hosting
    Infrastructure-as-a-Service (IaaS)
    Comparison of Infrastructure-as-a-Service (IaaS) features of Navisite Managed Infrastructure Services (NaviCloud) and OVH Dedicated Servers and Rackspace Managed Hosting
    Feature
    Navisite Managed Infrastructure Services (NaviCloud)
    8.0
    1 Ratings
    3% below category average
    OVH Dedicated Servers
    8.7
    2 Ratings
    5% above category average
    Rackspace Managed Hosting
    -
    Ratings
    Service-level Agreement (SLA) uptime8.01 Ratings10.02 Ratings00 Ratings
    Dynamic scaling8.01 Ratings6.01 Ratings00 Ratings
    Monitoring tools8.01 Ratings7.02 Ratings00 Ratings
    Elastic load balancing00 Ratings8.01 Ratings00 Ratings
    Pre-configured templates00 Ratings10.02 Ratings00 Ratings
    Pre-defined machine images00 Ratings10.02 Ratings00 Ratings
    Operating system support00 Ratings10.02 Ratings00 Ratings
    Security controls00 Ratings10.02 Ratings00 Ratings
    Automation00 Ratings7.02 Ratings00 Ratings
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    User Ratings
    Navisite Managed Infrastructure Services (NaviCloud)OVH Dedicated ServersRackspace Managed Hosting
    Likelihood to Recommend
    7.0
    (2 ratings)
    10.0
    (2 ratings)
    1.0
    (15 ratings)
    Likelihood to Renew
    8.0
    (1 ratings)
    -
    (0 ratings)
    2.2
    (2 ratings)
    Usability
    -
    (0 ratings)
    10.0
    (1 ratings)
    5.0
    (1 ratings)
    Support Rating
    -
    (0 ratings)
    -
    (0 ratings)
    1.0
    (1 ratings)
    User Testimonials
    Navisite Managed Infrastructure Services (NaviCloud)OVH Dedicated ServersRackspace Managed Hosting
    Likelihood to Recommend
    Navisite
    Clarify before hand any additional charges for remote hand and arrangement/SLA for remote hand. Negotiate well on these terms as they tend to be more flexible around this. Clarify shipping and handling charges if any.
    Incentivized
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    OVHcloud
    I think the only reason not to look at OVH Dedicated Servers is if you need something with higher resilience. It's important to remember that these are a single physical server and thus have the same risks of outage as if you deploy a single physical server anywhere else. Most VPS solutions (whether OVH or elsewhere) have all the failover and HA abstracted from you and so offer less administrative overhead. However in terms of the amount of compute, storage and RAM you can get for your dollar, you can't beat the value proposition of OVH, and coupled with that they will repair the hardware if it fails, your task is simply to ensure you've take appropriate backup steps, and understand your RTO and RPO and architect accordingly. If you can withstand a period of downtime, then a single dedicated server will go a long way!
    Incentivized
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    Rackspace
    Rackspace is very well suited as a IaaS (Infrastructure as a Service) provider, particularly when you're planning on leaving the infrastructure up for a period of time. They seem to focus a bit more on that aspect of infrastructure. That is to say, they seem to promote running servers for longer periods of time and not spinning up/shutting down servers frequently based on usage spikes. While, they do support that sort of availability -- they don't have features built into their offering, necessarily, that make it a lot easier to implement. Our experiences with Rackspace have been 100% around their cloud platform, but they have another entire part of their business that is centered around hosting/maintaining/supporting physical hardware (bare metal). They have had a great reputation over the last several years (10+) for being top-notch providers in this space, which is one reason we even considered them for our Cloud-based hosting needs. We don't have any direct experience with their "bare metal" offerings, but their reputation is certainly great, and worth noting.
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    Pros
    Navisite
    • 24/7 monitoring
    • Immediate notification in the event of failures
    • Dedicated Senior DBA
    • Dedicate Account rep
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    OVHcloud
    • Automatically archives and backs up storage.
    • It is optimized for large and critical loads.
    • Consistent top uptime.
    Incentivized
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    Rackspace
    • Fanatical Support - I can't stress how great their team is. Not only are they knowledgeable, whenever I call in (during the day or in the middle of the night), I never have to wait more than a minute to speak to someone.
    • Webmail, Hosted Exchange, and Office365 Support - As an IT team of one, Rackspace's cloud solution and migration team has really helped me over the years to minimize issues for users, but also provide a reliable and flexible email platform.
    Incentivized
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    Cons
    Navisite
    • San Jose facility power outage caused damage to company's credibility, this should not occur again being 7x24 facility and backup generator
    • Avoiding too many management changes will help create good connection with individuals for sustained harmony
    Incentivized
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    OVHcloud
    • Security options are pretty basic, we must use SOAR software alongside to secure the servers.
    Incentivized
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    Rackspace
    • Latest outage 12/2/22 and counting over 75 hours - in my opinion, support has been miserable. In my experience, there's little/no communication regarding the problem or cause. No support. In my opinion, erroneous advice. Virtually NOTHING for users. I feel we've been abandoned.
    • Outage appears to have been caused by unpatched servers & no backup servers
    • In my opinion, NO COMPANY should trust their data or services to a nonresponsive company like Rackspace.
    • In my experience, there are NO published policies/practices re: server maintenance (patching) to mitigate hacking, NO published policies/practices re: backup servers in the event of problems. I feel it's stupid of me as a user to have chosen to trust them with critical services
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    Likelihood to Renew
    Navisite
    Price and facility equipment, location of the hosting facility factor into the decision to renew
    Incentivized
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    OVHcloud
    No answers on this topic
    Rackspace
    If I wake tomorrow completely incapable of managing a client cloud operation, our dedicated Rackspace Cloud Engineering Team is deployable as literal extension of our business, immediately addressing all needs and requirements without cause of business disruption for our consultancy, and more importantly for the mission-critical ones of our clients. For this reason alone, Rackspace is our choice of choices!
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    Usability
    Navisite
    No answers on this topic
    OVHcloud
    Everything has been thought of - from the initial password secure portal, through to day to day management, you can do everything from the console easily. Remote KVM is on hand for those awful moments (if you have them - and we all have) where the server won't boot for some reason
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    Rackspace
    The company does not put as much focus on usability as other cloud competitors and it is kind of clear. It would be good to take a quarter and gather intense feedback, and then another quarter and focus purely on UI enhancements and backend interoperability
    Incentivized
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    Support Rating
    Navisite
    No answers on this topic
    OVHcloud
    No answers on this topic
    Rackspace
    In my experience, their support team is massively overworked — taking FOUR DAYS to look at tickets, and a MONTH to fix problems!
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    Alternatives Considered
    Navisite
    Navisite's rates were better and they seemed to have more SQL Server expertise. This was about 5 years ago and it may not be the case anymore
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    OVHcloud
    OVH Dedicated Servers are a different product so a direct comparison is difficult. In simple terms, both provide compute, memory and storage. However the EC2 instances offer significantly more in the way of resiliency in the event of a single hardware failure. However this comes at a price, and there is no way you could get 18TB of RAID5 style storage on HDD from a Public Cloud provider for the price of an OVH Dedicated Server
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    Rackspace
    LiquidWeb or Amazon both offer some products that could be considered similar. I will say though, after years of dealing with Rackspace, their service is what always has me coming back. Their support is typically so much better than other vendors that I hesitate to use other vendors. Pricing might be cheaper, but when you have an issue and need it resolved ASAP, then Rackspace has come through in the majority of cases for me.
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    Return on Investment
    Navisite
    • Cost savings by not having a full-time DBA on staff - saving of at least 50K a year
    • Data team not on call 24/7
    • Navisite team will try to fix issue if possible - e.g. shrink log files that have grown
    Incentivized
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    OVHcloud
    • Consistent 99 percent uptime.
    • Quite affordable, with plans costing barely 100 dollars per month.
    Incentivized
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    Rackspace
    • We've found it helpful to host our own web sites on their cloud servers, which is a positive.
    • We've also hosted our Nagios instance on a low-end cloud server, which is also a positive.
    • A negative impact is that they've now decided to start charging for their support.
    Incentivized
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